photo by Jessica Dalene at The Watermill Center, October 2023
Fana Fraser is an artist, producer and director. Her performance work gravitates to expressions of power, eroticism and compassion. Most recently, Fana was on faculty at Harvard TDM as a Visiting Lecturer for Fall 2024. Her short film, ‘nesting’ was commissioned by TBA21-Academy in 2023.
Fana’s work has been presented at several venues including: New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Museum, Movement Research at the Judson Church, BAAD!, Gibney, Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco and Trinidad Theatre Workshop.
As an educator, she has taught workshops in the MFA Dance Program at Sarah Lawrence and during 2020-2022 Fana taught as an adjunct associate professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. At NYU Tisch and Adelphi University she has led workshops in BFA Dance Programs.
Fana was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer’s Prize.
She served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20. As a dancer and collaborator, Fana originated roles and toured internationally with Camille A. Brown & Dancers and Ailey II. They have also done performance work with Samita Sinha’s ‘Infinity Folds’, Nia O. Witherspoon’s ‘Priestess of Twerk’, Sidra Bell Dance New York, The Metropolitan Opera, Bard SummerScape Opera, Catherine Galasso, Andrea Miller for Hermès, The Francesca Harper Project, Raja Feather Kelly and the Feath3r theory, Miriam Simun, Jonathan González, Roya Carreras, Ryan McNamara, and many others.
A certified Gyrotonic® Instructor, Fana has extensive experience in Yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique and Somatic Experiencing®. She is also a full spectrum doula.